There's a notice by the police box that Hutchison is going to lay fibre cable ducts in various places -- looks like along the path from HSY to YSW, and in Sok Kwu Wan.

I've heard that HEC has their own fibre network here, and maybe this is under contract to them, (and I'd bet it connects to HK via the HEC tunnel) but this could be a very interesting development. With fibre broadband you can get a stable connection at up to 100 MB/s for the same cost as the DSL we have now, at max of about 5 MB/s. Plus probably a bunch of cable TV stations (at extra charge).

See HGC Residential Broadband.


Of course, the Lands Dept and Hutchison are unlikely to tell us anything about such plans, if there are any for consumers at all.

And I've been thinking how easy it would be to lay fibre alongside the sewage pipes now being laid all over, at marginal extra cost, which will eventually reach every house in YSW. They could use a few strands to replace the conventional copper phone lines that dangle higgledy-piggledy all over the place and tidy the village up a bit as well as giving us all crystal clear cable TV, 100 MB/s broadband, and removing our shit into the bargain.

But our government's idea of Next Generation Tech is to put up a 1970s' style flashing digital clock next to a rubbish collection point.

Today I saw a couple of guys splicing cables in the HGC manhole outside Granny chans.

We had a brief broken chat about what they were doing and the upshot was that the fibre is for "all Lamma" and the expected finish date is "end five month". whether that's the end of May, or 5 months from now is beyond my Cantonese skills - but I'm hopeful.

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My guess is that HGC will provide a backbone service and PCCW will be able to plug into it.

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You're most welcome, Amphibious Nerd!

By the way, thanks for your beautiful froggy pic in Lamma Wildlife of the Day online now....

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We have 100mb in our office in Central. Speed is only to the exchange so what you find is simply that the bottleneck goes elsewhere. Think about 15mb and you get a better idea of the real practical speed.